So depressed today :(

[aloneinafrica]

Everything feels a mess... I'm listless and unmotivated. I feel all alone and cut off from the world. I feel physically sick with worry and fear about the future. I feel like crying all the time and I wish I could just sleep, but when I lay down, awful memories from the past keep haunting me.

Please pray for me. I literally have no strength of my own left right now and I don't know how to get out of it. My mental health is only declining by the day and I feel very little sympathy from the professionals and even family. It's been practically the worst year of my life and I'm SO depleted... Someone please pray for me for the Lord's miraculous healing or I couldn't go on.

 

[Tempura]

I've been there. Just take one day at a time, and get any help you can, even if you feel like some people don't care. It'll get better eventually. Sounds like a cliché but it's true. No fear, continue to have hope in Christ. Worrying is very depleting as you have noticed. We can and will learn to let go of that useless burden. Said a prayer for you and your loved ones.

 

[Greg J.]

I trust you posted in this forum because you are already on medication for clinical depression. Your post screams that you are having a depression episode.

I spent a lot of years on my knees asking God for deliverance. It never came the way I wanted it (still hasn't), but the Lord has given me far, far greater things instead.

When you are having a good day, ask yourself what you need to do to reduce the number of painful things going on. (e.g., being in Africa if that's not your native continent; or if it is, perhaps you need to be elsewhere, or doing different things, or interacting with different people, etc.)

I will pray for you.

 

[rockytopva]

Father I pray blessings on this request and for the deliverance from depression in Jesus name I pray. Also taking these needs before God in prayer on the 1:15PM bbnradio.org Family Altar program.

 

[Rasnosauj]

Everything feels a mess... I'm listless and unmotivated. I feel all alone and cut off from the world. I feel physically sick with worry and fear about the future. I feel like crying all the time and I wish I could just sleep, but when I lay down, awful memories from the past keep haunting me.

Please pray for me. I literally have no strength of my own left right now and I don't know how to get out of it. My mental health is only declining by the day and I feel very little sympathy from the professionals and even family. It's been practically the worst year of my life and I'm SO depleted... Someone please pray for me for the Lord's miraculous healing or I couldn't go on.

You should get yourself on a schedule all day everyday, and you'll see yourself getting better by the day, rather than wasting days with your hardships. You have brothers and sisters on this forum, I'm always bout chatting if you ever wanna chat. Physical illnesses are trying to bring u down, don't have your mind on them, it'll pass when u do(God is testing u). And worrying bout the future, well everyday forces from hell are trying to make us worry. So stop worrying, or suffer cause it's a sin. Jesus tells us "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34. If you seriously feel like ur mental health is declining, u need medicine. Get prescribed my advice, I did and I call it feeling sane when I pop my pills.

 

[JudyH]

Awwww, so sorry. I'll pray for you. The good news is that when we reach the end of our own strength, Jesus is there with His strength to pick us up. I hope you can surrender yourself into His loving and merciful arms. You may not be able to see the answers you need right now, but they will come. Sometimes it takes time. As someone else already said, just focus on one day at a time and don't try to figure out the future.

I wonder if there is something in particular that you're grieving right now? My own experience has been that often when I have a particularly bad depression episode, it's because I've experienced some kind of loss or trauma. Depression gets all wrapped up with grief sometimes, and we often don't know how to grieve in healthy ways. Have you suffered some kind of loss or trauma lately?

 

[Jeshu]

Everything feels a mess... I'm listless and unmotivated. I feel all alone and cut off from the world. I feel physically sick with worry and fear about the future. I feel like crying all the time and I wish I could just sleep, but when I lay down, awful memories from the past keep haunting me.

Please pray for me. I literally have no strength of my own left right now and I don't know how to get out of it. My mental health is only declining by the day and I feel very little sympathy from the professionals and even family. It's been practically the worst year of my life and I'm SO depleted... Someone please pray for me for the Lord's miraculous healing or I couldn't go on.

I have prayed, I'm praying now, and I will pray you get out of this bind sister. Jesus can get you out. Remember the lessons of Scripture and let them guide you.

We could sums them up;

1. Look at Jesus the perfecter of your faith and see The Master loving to the max possible. Learn to suffer like Him and you will also have overcome bad life, like He, and all who love Him did, do and will do.
   
2. what you sow you shall harvest! Have you ever pondered that each time you agree with negative thoughts or feelings you sow more negative thoughts and feelings? The good news is it works the other way around as well. So each good thought or feeling you agree with is also sown. Now go and love God for loving you (and all,) and then yourself with the love God has for you, and then go and love your neighbour as you love yourself and produce much good fruit and healthy bumper crops at harvest time. And so over time learn to stop sowing negative thoughts and feelings because you have so much more choice inside your own heart and mind for good life is present as well.
   
3. Serve others with the love God has brought alive inside of you and you will walk away praising Him within a very short time. For actively loving our hurting neighbour with sympathetic, loving, gentle and caring hearts is always going to harvest you good life. For God is love, so the more love you give out, the more He will grow in you in return for your actively using Him. He loves it when we do that. We are the apple of His eye when we love genuinely and whole heartedly.

Down In The Pit?

Beloved when your depression must rule as king
Keep you eyes peeled on The Truth of God's Love
Lies' despairing misery making those wicked cling
yet faith in Christ's loving truth rescues from above.

Awaiting Jesus in your darkest hour so sore and low.
Fighting of those ugly feelings and thoughts pounding
In The pit God's loving truth in faith will now surely grow
God's Kingdom Come - no misery Good Life hounding.

 

[Goatee]

Turn to God. Carry your cross for God

 

[Sérgio Junior]

I will be praying for you, May the Lord Almighty bless you and help you every day.

 

[rturner76]

Everything feels a mess... I'm listless and unmotivated. I feel all alone and cut off from the world. I feel physically sick with worry and fear about the future. I feel like crying all the time and I wish I could just sleep, but when I lay down, awful memories from the past keep haunting me.

Please pray for me. I literally have no strength of my own left right now and I don't know how to get out of it. My mental health is only declining by the day and I feel very little sympathy from the professionals and even family. It's been practically the worst year of my life and I'm SO depleted... Someone please pray for me for the Lord's miraculous healing or I couldn't go on.

I do pray right now for the Lord to provide a miraculous healing from the grips of this debilitating depression. I am sorry the Lord usually answers this prayer in small increments instead of all at once. Why I do not know though I am sure some have been instantly delivered.

The OP did not ask for advice so I will just offer my support and prayers. I too suffer from a debilitating depression which has taken away my ability to work and carry on with"normal" relationships such as forming new friendships and nurturing old friendships and even family relationships are strained.

With many people, families and the professionals do not understand the monumental task it is to get out of bed, let alone do things that are recommended like work out, reach out to friends, and go out in public places for walks and such. The shame of past and current regrets, the guilt for not being able to do "normal" things and enjoy life like others do is a great obstacle in recovery and it is for these feelings that I ask God for relief.

I didn't mean to go on and on but I am all to familiar with the crushing pain of depression and the despair and loneliness that comes with it. It's the only disease that can make one feel lonely in a room full of people. I just hope that it is understood that this is a medical disorder and not a character defect.

God bless and stay strong, always seeking God and helping others. These actions open our hearts to Gods blessing.